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Titles in this series: Australian curriculum science (Foundation) Australian curriculum science (Year 1) Australian curriculum science (Year 2) Australian curriculum science (Year 3) Australian curriculum science (Year 4) Australian curriculum science (Year 5) Australian curriculum science (Year 6) Australian curriculum science (Year 7)

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Foreword Australian curriculum science – Foundation to Year 7 is a series of books written specifically to support the national curriculum. Science literacy texts introduce concepts and are supported by practical hands-on activities, predominantly experiments. All Science Understanding and Science as a Human Endeavour substrands for each level are included. Science Inquiry Skills and overarching ideas underpin all topics. Australian curriculum science is a complementary resource to the previously released R.I.C. series, Primary Science.

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Titles in this series are: Australian curriculum science – Foundation Australian curriculum science – Year 1 Australian curriculum science – Year 2 Australian curriculum science – Year 3 Australian curriculum science – Year 4 Australian curriculum science – Year 5 Australian curriculum science – Year 6 Australian curriculum science – Year 7

How can changing materials from solid to liquid be useful? ........................................................... 43–45 Investigating harmful solids and liquids .............................. 45

Teachers notes ................................................................ iv–vi Science inquiry skills overview ........................................... vii Report format ................................................................... viii Basic experiment format ..................................................... ix

Earth and space sciences ................................... 46–65 What are some of the objects we can see from Earth? ... 46–48 Our solar system ................................................................ 49 Why do we have days, nights, years and seasons? .......... 50–52 How does the Earth rotate and revolve? .............................. 53 How does the sun make shadows? ................................ 54–56 How does a sundial work? .................................................. 57 Why does the moon change shape? ............................... 58–60 Observing the moon ........................................................... 61 How did ancient peoples use astronomy? ..................... 62–64 Stories about the sky .......................................................... 65

Biological sciences ..................................................... 2–33 Is it living, non-living or once living? ................................ 2–4 Can a plant move like a living thing? ..................................... 5 How are animals and plants different? .............................. 6–8 Animal and plant investigation .............................................. 9 How can animals be grouped? ...................................... 10–12 Grouping animals ............................................................... 13 How can plants be grouped? ......................................... 14–16 Grouping plants .................................................................. 17 What does a palaeontologist do? ................................... 18–20 Be a palaeontologist for a day! ............................................ 21 How did the dinosaurs live? .......................................... 22–24 Dinosaur report ................................................................. 25 What do indigenous people know about the natural environment? .................................................... 26–28 How did indigenous people use their knowledge of plants and animals? ............................................................ 29 How can science help plants and animals? ................... 30–32 Science in the community ................................................... 33

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Physical sciences ...................................................... 66–81 What is heat and how is it produced? ............................ 66–68 Handy experiments ..............................................................69 How does heat travel? ....................................................70–72 Spoonfuls of experiments ................................................... 73 What is a thermometer? ................................................ 74–76 What’s the temperature? ..................................................... 77 How can heat affect us and things around us? ............... 78–80 Magic balloon trick ............................................................ 81

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Chemical sciences .................................................... 34–45 What is the difference between a solid, a liquid and a gas? ........................................................ 34–36 Do solids, liquids and gases have weight? ........................... 37 What happens when solids and liquids are heated and cooled? .................................................................. 38–41 The chocolate experiment .................................................. 42

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Teachers notes Each book is divided into four sections corresponding to the four substrands of the Science Understanding strand of the curriculum. Shaded tabs down the side of each book provide a quick and easy means to locate biological sciences, chemical sciences, Earth and space sciences or physical sciences substrands. Science as a Human Endeavour units or questions, as set out in the Australian Curriculum, are included in all substrands. Science Inquiry Skills are included in all units. The skills utilised are listed on each teachers page. The six overarching ideas (Patterns, order and organisation; Form and function; Stability and change; Scale and measurement; Matter and energy; and Systems) underpin each science literacy text page and are included as much as possible throughout the comprehension pages.

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Each substrand is divided into a number of four-page units, each covering a particular aspect and following a consistent format. The four-page format of each unit consists of: â&#x20AC;˘ a teachers page

â&#x20AC;˘ student page 1, which is a science literacy text about the concept with relevant diagrams or artwork

â&#x20AC;˘ student page 3, which involves a hands-on activity such as an experiment. FOUR-PAGE FORMAT Teachers page

The first page in each four-page format is a teachers page which provides the following information:

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â&#x20AC;˘ student page 2, which includes comprehension questions about the literacy text

â&#x20AC;˘ Preparation states any material or resources the teacher may need to collect to implement a lesson, or carry out an experiment or activity.

â&#x20AC;˘ The title of the four-page unit is given.

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s #OLLECT SOME OF THE ITEMS IN THE LAST TWO PARAGRAPHS ON PAGE s #OLLECT THE MATERIALS LISTED FOR THE EXPERIMENT ON PAGE

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The lessons s 0AGES AND SHOULD BE USED TOGETHER s TAKE THE STUDENTS ON A @NATURE WALK OUTSIDE SO THEY CAN OBSERVE THEIR SURROUNDINGS TO IDENTIFY LIVING AND NON LIVING OBJECTS AND TO TAKE NOTE OF ANY THINGS THEY ARE NOT SURE ABOUT 3HOW STUDENTS SOME OF THE ITEMS COLLECTED IN THE LAST TWO PARAGRAPHS ON PAGE

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â&#x20AC;˘ The Inquiry Skills focus covered within the four pages is set out. â&#x20AC;˘ A shaded tab gives the Science Understanding substrand.

s 4HE AIM OF THE EXPERIMENT ON PAGE IS FOR STUDENTS TO UNDERSTAND THAT LIKE ALL LIVING THINGS PLANTS CAN AND DO MOVE 0LANTS USUALLY MOVE SO SLOWLY THAT WE DON T NOTICE 0LANTS RESPOND TO A NUMBER OF DIFFERENT CUES IN THEIR ENVIRONMENT WITH MOVEMENT 4HESE MOVEMENTS ARE CALLED @TROPISMS AND INCLUDE GRAVITROPISM RESPONSE TO GRAVITY HYDROTROPISM RESPONSE TO WATER AND PHOTOTROPISM RESPONSE to LIGHT

s 4HE MAJOR DIFFERENCE BETWEEN LIVING AND NON LIVING THINGS WHICH IS TOO COMPLEX TO DESCRIBE IN DETAIL FOR STUDENTS OF THIS AGE GROUP IS THAT ALL LIVING THINGS ARE MADE UP OF ONE OR MORE CELLS ,IVING THINGS CAN BE CLASSIl ED AS SHOWING THE FOLLOWING MAIN LIFE FUNCTIONS AT SOME TIME â&#x2C6;&#x2019; GROWTH ,IVING THINGS INCREASE IN SIZE AND REPAIR SOME DAMAGED PARTS

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â&#x2C6;&#x2019; -OVEMENT ,IVING THINGS CAN CHANGE THEIR POSITION IN THEIR ENVIRONMENT BY THEMSELVES 0LANTS WHILE SLOWER AND MORE LIMITED IN THEIR MOVEMENT CAN MOVE

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â&#x2C6;&#x2019; REPRODUCTION ,IVING THINGS CREATE SIMILAR ORGANISMS to THEMSELVES

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â&#x2C6;&#x2019; 3ENSITIVITY ,IVING THINGS CAN SENSE AND RESPOND TO STIMULI IN THEIR ENVIRONMENT

A n B !NSWERS MIGHT INCLUDE ITEMS THAT MOVE OR HAVE MOVING PARTS E G CLOCK SUN CLOUDS C !NSWERS COULD INCLUDE BECAUSE IT DOESN T TAKE IN FOOD OR NUTRIENTS BREATHE HAVE OFFSPRING GIVE OFF WASTES ETC TEACHER CHECK 2EFER TO C 4HEY WERE BOTH ONCE LIVING ,IVING D E G H .ON LIVING A B F I /NCE LIVING C J K 0OSSIBLE ANSWERS PAPER WOOD MILK CHEESE m OUR

â&#x2C6;&#x2019; RESPIRATION ,IVING THINGS CONVERT ENERGY FROM THE ENVIRONMENT FOOD FOR USE A PROCESS USUALLY REQUIRING OXYGEN

â&#x2C6;&#x2019; ELIMINATION %XCRETION ,IFE FUNCTIONS CREATE WASTES WHICH MUST BE REMOVED FROM THE ORGANISM

â&#x2C6;&#x2019; &EEDING .UTRITION )N ALL LIVING THINGS THERE IS A CONTINUAL NEED TO TAKE IN FOOD FOR THE NUTRIENTS WHICH ARE REQUIRED FOR GROWTH AS WELL AS ENERGY s .ON LIVING THINGS DO NOT REPRODUCE 4HEY MAY CHANGE AND INCREASE IN SIZE DUE TO CERTAIN NATURAL PROCESSES BUT DO NOT DEVELOP AND ADAPT TO THE ENVIRONMENT 4HEY DO NOT RESPOND TO STIMULI OR REQUIRE AIR FOOD OR WATER

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n TEACHER CHECK YES 4HE PLANTS THAT WERE FURTHER FROM THE LIGHT SHOULD HAVE MOVED THEIR STEMS TOWARDS THE LIGHT AND BE ON AN ANGLE 4HOSE DIRECTLY UNDER THE LIGHT SHOULD HAVE GROWN STRAIGHT UP !NSWERS WILL VARY 3OME STUDENTS MIGHT RECALL THAT PLANTS NEED LIGHT SO THE PLANT GREW TOWARDS THE LIGHT /THERS MIGHT MENTION THAT THE PLANTS JUST GREW TOWARDS THE LIGHT BECAUSE IT WAS SHINING A PLANTS CAN MOVE THEIR STEMS TOWARDS LIGHT

s 4HINGS THAT WERE ONCE PART OF A LIVING THING SUCH AS WOOD FRUIT AND CUT GRASS ARE USUALLY CLASSIl ED AS @ONCE LIVING !NYTHING DEAD IS ALSO ONCE LIVING .ON LIVING IS THE CONDITION OF NEVER BEING ALIVE s 5SEFUL WEBSITES HTTP WWW ZEPHYRUS CO UK CHARACTERISTICS HTML HTTP WWW TEACHERSDOMAIN ORG RESOURCE TDC SCI LIFE COLT ALIVE HTTP VIDEOS HOWSTUFFWORKS COM DISCOVERY LIFE CREEPER PLANTS CLIMB TREES VIDEO HTM 3HOWS TIME LAPSE PHOTOGRAPHY OF A PLANT MOVING UPWARD TOWARDS LIGHT #OULD HELP SOME STUDENTS TO UNDERSTAND THAT PLANTS DO IN FACT MOVE

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â&#x20AC;˘ The lessons provides information relating to implementing the lessons on the following student pages.

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â&#x20AC;˘ The content focus (the particular aspect of the unit covered in that set of four pages) is given.

Content focus: $IFFERENCE BETWEEN LIVING NON LIVING AND ONCE LIVING THINGS

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â&#x20AC;˘ Answers and explanations are provided where appropriate for student pages 2 and 3 (the comprehension questions relating to the text and the final activity in the set of four pages).

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Teachers notes FOUR-PAGE FORMAT (continued) Student page 1 The second page in the four-page format is a science literacy text which introduces the topic. This page provides the following information: • The title of the unit is given. This is in the form of a question to incorporate science inquiry skills and overarching ideas.

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• A shaded tab down the side gives the Science Understanding substrand.

Usually it’s easy to tell if something is living or non-living. You would probably say you are living because you can move, grow and breathe. Your desk can’t do these things so it is non-living. But sometimes, non-living things can do some of the things that living things can do. For example, clouds can move across the sky. A ﬁre can grow and get larger.

However, for something to be called living, it must have all the features of living things. Living things like humans, other animals and plants can: • • • • •

Fire moves, grows and seems to ‘eat’ things when it burns them. But ﬁre does not reproduce. It is non-living.

Clouds move and change colour and shape. They drop rain and can get bigger. But they do not breathe, eat or have offspring. Clouds are non-living.

Water moves and changes. While water might carry away wastes, it does not make waste or reproduce. Water is non-living.

What about things like a bouquet of ﬂowers and fruit you buy in a supermarket? The cut ﬂowers are ‘once living’, once part of living plants. Fruit is also once living. Fossils are the remains of once living animals. Dead animals or plants are also once living.

• The science literacy text is provided.

There are many products made from living things. Paper and wood were once part of living trees. Milk and cheese come from animals such as dairy cows. Flour is produced from wheat. Can you think of other products made from living things?

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• Instructions are given for reading the text.

breathe (take in oxygen) • grow and change take in food or nutrients • give off wastes respond to things around them, like light or heat move (by themselves, either whole body or part of their body) reproduce (have ‘offspring’ like babies, or grow from seeds or spores)

• Relevant diagrams or artwork enhance the text, or are used to assist student understanding of the concepts.

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Student page 2

The second student page consists of a series of questions or activities relating to the literacy text. They aim to gauge student understanding of the concepts presented in the text. Many of these questions relate to overarching ideas relevant to that age level as stated in the Australian Curriculum Science.

• Questions or activities follow. These relate to the text on the previous page.

Use the text on page 3 to complete the following. 1. (a) Write the name of one non-living thing you can see that can do something a living thing can do. (b) What can it do?

2. Write the names of two non-living things that can change.

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• The title, which is the same as the text page, is given.

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Why is ice non-living?

4. What is similar between a bouquet of ﬂowers and a dead animal?

5. Write L in the box if the thing is living, N if it is non-living and OL if it is once living. (a) desk

(b) sun

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(f) water

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(j) leaf on the ground

(d) baby (h) ﬁsh (k) fruit in a bowl

6. List three things that are products of living things.

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Where relevant, a question relating to Science as a Human Endeavour may be included as the final question on this page. This assists in keeping the strands interrelated. This question is indicated by the icon shown to the left. R.I.C. Publications®

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Teachers notes FOUR-PAGE FORMAT (continued) Student page 3 The third student page provides a hands-on activity. It may be an experiment, art or craft activity, research activity or similar.

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• A shaded tab gives the Science Understanding substrand.

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• The title is given. This will be different from the previous two pages, but will be a related to the concept focus of the unit.

• An adapted procedure for an experiment, craft activity or a research activity is given.

Science as a Human Endeavour units and questions Those four-page units which are related specifically to Science as a Human Endeavour substrands are indicated by the icon shown.

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Where Science as a Human Endeavour questions occur within Science Understanding units, they are also indicated by the use of the icon. Explanations and answers relating to these questions are given on the appropriate teachers page.

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Science inquiry skills overview Biological sciences PAGE

Questioning and predicting

Planning and conducting

Processing and analysing data and information

Evaluating

Communicating

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Report format Title Classification What is it?

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Description

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Conclusion What I think about it

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Experiment format Title Goal Materials

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Is it living, non-living or once living? • Collect some of the items in the last two paragraphs on page 3. • Collect the materials listed for the experiment on page 5.

Inquiry skills focus: Questioning and predicting Planning and conducting Processing and analysing data and information Evaluating Communicating Background information

The lessons • Pages 3 and 4 should be used together. • Take the students on a ‘nature walk’ outside so they can observe their surroundings to identify living and non-living objects, and to take note of any things they are not sure about. Show students some of the items collected in the last two paragraphs on page 3.

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− Growth: Living things increase in size and repair some damaged parts.

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• The aim of the experiment on page 5 is for students to understand that, like all living things, plants can and do move. Plants usually move so slowly that we don’t notice. Plants respond to a number of different cues in their environment with movement. These movements are called ‘tropisms’ and include gravitropism (response to gravity), hydrotropism (response to water) and phototropism (response to light).

• The major difference between living and non-living things, which is too complex to describe in detail for students of this age group, is that all living things are made up of one or more cells. Living things can be classified as showing the following main life functions at some time:

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• Discuss with the students after the activity how the experiment worked or didn’t work, what might have gone wrong, and what they would change to make it better. Digital photographs could be taken.

− Movement: Living things can change their position in their environment by themselves. Plants, while slower and more limited in their movement, can move.

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− Reproduction: Living things create similar organisms to themselves.

− Sensitivity: Living things can sense and respond to stimuli in their environment.

1. (a)–(b) Answers might include items that move or have moving parts; e.g. clock, sun, clouds. (c) Answers could include because it doesn’t take in food or nutrients, breathe, have offspring, give off wastes etc. 2. Teacher check 3. Refer to 1. (c) 4. They were both once living. 5. Living: (d), (e), (g), (h) Non-living: (a), (b), (f), (i) Once living: (c), (j), (k) 6. Possible answers: paper, wood, milk, cheese, flour

− Respiration: Living things convert energy from the environment (food) for use, a process usually requiring oxygen.

− Elimination/Excretion: Life functions create wastes which must be removed from the organism.

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− Feeding/Nutrition: In all living things, there is a continual need to take in food for the nutrients which are required for growth, as well as energy. • Non-living things do not reproduce. They may change and increase in size due to certain natural processes, but do not develop and adapt to the environment. They do not respond to stimuli; or require air, food or water.

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1.–2. Teacher check 3. Yes. The plants that were further from the light should have moved their stems towards the light and be on an angle. Those directly under the light should have grown straight up. 4. Answers will vary. Some students might recall that plants need light, so the plant grew towards the light. Others might mention that the plants just grew towards the light because it was shining. 5. (a) plants can move their stems towards light.

• Things that were once part of a living thing, such as wood, fruit and cut grass, are usually classified as ‘once living’. Anything dead is also once-living. Non-living is the condition of never being alive. • Useful websites:

<http://www.zephyrus.co.uk/characteristics.html> <http://www.teachersdomain.org/resource/tdc02.sci.life.colt. alive/> <http://videos.howstuffworks.com/discovery/40622-life-creeperplants-climb-trees-video.htm> (Shows time lapse photography of a plant moving upward towards light. Could help some students to understand that plants do in fact move.)

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Content focus: Difference between living, non-living and once living things

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Read the text. How can you tell if something is living or non-living? Look around your classroom and decide what might be living and non-living. You would be likely to say your teacher and you are living and your desk and chair are non-living. But how do you know this? Usually it’s easy to tell if something is living or non-living. You would probably say you are living because you can move, grow and breathe. Your desk can’t do these things so it is non-living. But sometimes, non-living things can do some of the things that living things can do. For example, clouds can move across the sky. A fire can grow and get larger.

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Water moves and changes. While water might carry away wastes, it does not make waste or reproduce. Water is non-living.

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What about things like a bouquet of flowers and fruit you buy in a supermarket? The cut flowers are ‘once living’, once part of living plants. Fruit is also once living. Fossils are the remains of once living animals. Dead animals or plants are also once living. There are many products made from living things. Paper and wood were once part of living trees. Milk and cheese come from animals such as dairy cows. Flour is produced from wheat. Can you think of other products made from living things?

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Is it living, non-living or once living? – 2 1. (a) Write the name of one non-living thing you can see that can do something a living thing can do. (b) What can it do?

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2. Write the names of two non-living things that can change.

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Use the text on page 3 to complete the following.

4. What is similar between a bouquet of flowers and a dead animal?

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Plants are living things, but they canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t move â&#x20AC;Ś can they? Letâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s find out! Materials: â&#x20AC;˘ â&#x20AC;˘ â&#x20AC;˘ â&#x20AC;˘

4 seedlings (such as bean plants) in small plastic pots or containers water scissors large cardboard box with lid, lined with plastic

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í˘ą Cut a hole (about the size of a 50c coin) close í˘˛ Put two of the seedlings into the box directly

under the hole and two at the other end of the box.

í˘ł Put the lid on the box and place it in a bright area. Water the plants over two weeks or until they have grown a few centimetres.

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3. Did the plants far from the light grow differently from the plants under the light?

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5. Tick the answer that is the best conclusion. This experiment shows that: (a) plants can move their stems towards light. ................................................. (b) plants can drink and grow when a light is shining on them. ........................ (c) seeds are like a plantâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s babies that only grow with soil and light. ............... R.I.C. PublicationsÂŽ

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Can a plant move like a living thing?

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1. Students should choose from four of the following: breathe, grow and change, take in food and nutrients, reproduce, give off wastes, move, and respond to things. 2. To help them move by walking, running, crawling, flying etc. 3. (a) They use a mouth, teeth or beak for eating and stomach for digesting. (b) Plants usually make their own food in their leaves. 4. Many animals have several senses and sense organs to see, hear, taste, touch and smell things. 5. Plants have coverings such as bark and leaf and stem coverings. Animals have skin, hair, hide, scales, feathers and shells etc. 6. A Venus flytrap behaves like an animal as it eats insects like some animals do.

• The question of how the approximately 14 million living things identified should be grouped has engaged researchers for centuries. In 1753, Carolus Linnaeus, a Swede, devised a system in which there were only two kingdoms—plants and animals. Modern classification has become more complex. Many biologists recognise six kingdoms—Animalia (animals), Plantae (plants), Protista (slime moulds and algae), Archaebacteria (single-celled organisms), Eubacteria (different chemical makeup from Archaebacteria) and Fungi (e.g. mushrooms, toadstools, mildew). The kingdoms are classified by the living things’ cell type, number of cells and ability to make own food. • Useful websites:

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• The text highlights some of the differences between animals and plants students of this age can comprehend. In simple terms, the differences discussed are those involved in movement, feeding, the use of senses and coverings.

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<http://www.ric.edu/faculty/ptiskus/Six_Kingdoms/Index.htm> (Simple explanation of six-kingdom classification.) <http://www.sciencekids.co.nz/gamesactivities/plantanimaldif. html> (Sorting living things into groups)

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Read the text. Did you know that there are millions of different types of animals and plants on Earth? Animals and plants both belong in the same group of living things. But how do you know if a living thing is a plant or an animal? We know that all living things breathe, grow and change, and take in food and nutrients. They also reproduce, give off wastes, and move and respond to things around them like light or heat. It is usually easy to tell an animal from a plant. We know a bee, a fish and a kangaroo are animals. And we know that a gum tree, a rose and a fern are plants. Sometimes, it is more difficult to tell. For example, a plant called a Venus flytrap catches animals such as insects! It behaves a bit like an animal but is still a plant.

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Here are some ways to tell the difference between animals and plants. 1. Movement Animals can move from place to place by themselves. They may have legs, limbs or wings to help them walk, run, crawl or fly. Most plants grow in soil and stay in the one place. They move as they grow or as the wind moves them. They may also move in response to a stimulus like light, such as opening their petals in the morning sunshine.

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3. Use of senses Most animals use several senses and have sense organs. Many animals have eyes for seeing and ears for hearing. Some feel things through skin or antennae and have noses for smelling. Some taste things using their tongue. Plants don’t have senses in the same way animals do. They respond to a stimulus such as when an insect lands on a Venus flytrap and its trap closes. They don’t have sense organs such as eyes, ears, noses or antennae.

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4. Coverings Animals have coverings such as skin (human), hair (dog), hide (rhinoceros), scales (python, goldfish), feathers (owl) or shells (snail). Plants have coverings such as bark on tree trunks, and leaf and stem coverings that can vary, such as smooth, coarse, hairy or hard. R.I.C. Publications®

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How are animals and plants different? – 2 1. List four things all living things can do.

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3. (a) What do most animals use to eat and digest their food?

(b) How do plants usually get their food?

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Animal and plant investigation 1. (a) Choose one animal and one plant to plan a report about. (b) Make notes next to each question about the animal and plant. (c) Add one question of your own in the blank box. Animal

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How can animals be grouped? Page 12

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1. Students should answer vertebrate because they have a backbone. 2. (a) V (b) I (c) V (d) I (e) I (f) V 3. (a) have live young/mother feeds young milk/have hair or fur (b) have feathers and wings/most can fly (c) most have scales and fins/breathe all life with gills (d) dry skin and scales (e) spend part of life in water and part on land 4. live in water/are invertebrates/take in food and expel wastes 5. A carnivore is an animal that eats meat and a herbivore is one that eats plants. 6. (a) it would have an exoskeleton, jointed legs and segmented body, and live in water or on land (b) have spiny skin and live in seawater (c) have a shell on inside or outside of body/live in water or on land

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• Modern scientific classification is based on the work of Swedish botanist, Carolus Linnaeus. Most scientists classify living things into seven groups. From largest to smallest these are: Kingdom, Phylum, Class, Order, Family, Genus, Species.

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• The huge diversity of animals that exists in the animal kingdom allows for an equally diverse range of groupings. Animals can belong to an infinite number of different groups and to subgroups within groups; e.g. a platypus is a vertebrate; a mammal, in the subgroup of monetremes as it is a mammal that lays eggs; it can swim; it is a native Australian animal; it has a covering of fur; it is a carnivore etc. Animals can be grouped according to a specific purpose such as research and the communication of information.

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Fish: cod Can fly: crow Mollusc: oyster Bird: crow, emu Invertebrate: oyster, ant, earthworm, sea urchin, cricket Vertebrate: crocodile, frog, lizard, crow, cod, whale, emu, horse, goanna, monkey Mammal: whale, horse, monkey Arthropod: ant, cricket Lives only on land: lizard, crow, emu, ant, horse, earthworm, cricket, goanna, monkey Has legs: frog, lizard, crow, emu, ant, horse, goanna, monkey, crocodile, cricket

• Ninety-five percent of all animals are invertebrates (animals without backbones). Of these, arthropods are the largest and most diverse of all animal groups.

• Sponges and some coelenterates like sea anenomes are often considered plants. However, they do not produce their own food like plants and use a filtering system to sieve food in and wastes out. When sponges are in the larval stage, they move by themselves until they attach to rock or a reef. • Useful website:

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• Students will need access to the internet and other reference material to complete the classification activity on page 13. The lessons • Pages 11 and 12 should be used together. • Ensure students know how to pronounce all the subgroups of invertebrates and vertebrates. • Page 13 could be completed individually, in pairs, in a small group or with the whole class. Students will need to revise or refer to page 11 to help them work out what each heading means. They will know where many of the animals should be placed through general knowledge and will need to research to find the remainder.

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Read the text. Scientists group animals by the things they have in common. This is called ‘classification’. There are many ways animals can be classified. One way is shown below. Invertebrates (Animals without backbones)

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• Sponges live in water. Filter tiny organisms and wastes through holes. • Coelenterates live in water. Have hollow bodies. Mouths take in food and get rid of waste. Examples: jellyfish, sea anenomes. • Echinoderms live in seawater. Have spiny skin. Examples: starfish, sea urchins. • Annelids live in water or on land. Have soft bodies and no legs. Examples: worms, earthworms. • Molluscs live in water or on land. Have a shell on the outside or inside of their body for protection. Examples: snails, squid. • Arthropods live in water or on land. Have a hard outside covering called an ‘exoskeleton’, jointed legs and segmented bodies. Examples: insects (e.g. butterflies), spiders, crustaceans (e.g. crabs).

• Mammals have live young which mother feeds with milk. Have hair or fur. Examples: elephants, mice. • Birds have feathers and wings. Most can fly. Lay eggs. Examples: owls, penguins. • Fish usually have scales and fins. Breathe underwater all life with gills. Lay eggs. Examples: sharks, cod. • Reptiles have dry skin and scales. Lay eggs. Examples: turtles, snakes. • Amphibians spend part of life on water and part on land. Lay eggs. Moist or slimy skin. Examples: frogs, toads.

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How can animals be grouped? – 1

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The animals below can be placed in different groups. Most of them can be placed under more than one heading. Write each animal’s name in every box in which it belongs. crocodile

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How can plants be grouped?

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Answers Page 16 1. Seed plants and non-seed plants. 2. They reproduce by spores. 3. (a) N (b) S (c) N (d) N (e) S (f) N (g) S (h) N (i) S 4. A spore does not have any nutrients for the shoot to use until its roots grow and take in nutrients. 5. (a) non-seed plants/reproduce by spores/grow in damp places (b) mosses are smaller/ferns are larger//mosses have simple leaves/ ferns have spreading fronds/ferns have special tubes to carry nutrients from the roots to the leaves and mosses do not 6. yellow: has flowers, seeds grow in an ovary green: seeds grow in a cone orange: can be a tree, has seeds, special tubes that carry water and nutrients

• Angiosperms are flowering plants whose seeds mature inside a female reproductive part of the flower, called the ovary. The ovary usually ripens into a protective fruit. The vast majority of plants— approximately 230 000—are classified as flowering plants. Gymnosperms are non-flowering seed plants. The seeds mature inside a cone. • Vascular plants have phloem and xylem tubes to transport water and nutrients from the roots to the leaves. Non-vascular plants like mosses absorb through their surfaces.

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Has flowers: rose, gum, lemon, olive, basil, carnation, parsley, broccoli, grape, ivy, daffodil Is a herb: basil, parsley Is a tree: gum, lemon, olive, fir, pine, tree fern Has cones: fir, pine Is a creeper or a vine: grape, ivy Part of the plant is a fruit or a vegetable: lemon, olive, broccoli, grape Has seeds: rose, gum, lemon, olive, basil, carnation, fir, pine, parsley, broccoli, grape, ivy, daffodil Has spores: moss, tree fern

• Seaweeds are commonly considered plants, as they have plant-like features. However, along with algae and slime moulds, they are classified in the Protista Kingdom. • Useful websites:

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Read the text. Scientists group plants by the things they have in common. This is called ‘classification’. There are different ways plants can be classified. One way is shown below.

Seed plants

(Plants that reproduce by spores)

(Plants that reproduce by seeds)

Non-seed plants can be sorted into mosses and ferns.

Seed plants can be sorted into non-flowering and flowering plants.

Mosses: Mosses do not have seeds or flowers. They reproduce by spores. Spores are a bit like seeds, but they do not have any nutrients in them for the sprout to use until its roots grow and take in nutrients.

Non-flowering plants: Conifers are trees or shrubs that do not have flowers. They reproduce from seeds. These are contained in a ‘cone’ instead of a flower.

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Conifers have special tubes that carry water and nutrients from the roots to the leaves. The leaves are small or needleshaped. Examples of conifers are pines, firs and cedars.

Mosses are small plants and have simple leaves. They are found growing in damp places on the ground, on rocks or on other plants. Other related plants in this group are liverworts and hornworts.

Flowering plants: Most plants belong in this group. They include most trees, shrubs, vines, herbs, flowers, legumes, fruits and vegetables. Like conifers, they have special tubes that carry water and nutrients from the roots to the leaves.

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The seeds are grown in an ‘ovary’ which is inside a flower or fruit. Many flowers are brightly coloured and easy to see. Others are small and not brightly coloured.

Unlike mosses, ferns have special tubes that carry water and nutrients from the roots to the fronds. Another related plant is the ‘horsetail’.

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How can plants be grouped? – 2 1. What are two main ways plants can be grouped?

2. How do non-seed plants reproduce?

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(b) pine

4. What is the difference between a spore and a seed?

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Grouping plants The plants below can be placed in different groups. Most of them can be placed under more than one heading. Write each plant’s name in every box in which it belongs. rose

moss

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What does a palaeontologist do? • Pages 19 and 20 should be used together. • Students could work in pairs as ‘palaeontologists’ to solve the ‘mysteries’ behind the fossil pictures on page 21. They write their findings in the space and discuss these with others in the class. If some findings are different, they should work out if the explanation is still a possibility.

Content focus: How the science of palaeontology has enabled us to understand patterns and relationships of prehistoric living things Inquiry skills focus: Questioning and predicting Planning and conducting Processing and analysing data and information Evaluating Communicating Background information

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1. Possible answers: discovers fossils; studies fossils; digs out, cleans, repairs and puts fossils back together. 2. Answers could indicate ‘yes’ because the word is from a Latin one meaning ‘dug up’, which is what happens to fossils. 3. (a) bones, teeth, claws (b) animal droppings/nests/eggs/footprints 4. A plant doesn’t have hard parts like bones. 5. It must be gently covered by fine sand or mud before it decays and disappears. 6. Possible answers: (a) how old a fossil is (b) what kind of plant it was, like a fern or a palm (c) if an animal walked on two or four legs/size of animal (d) what the animal ate

• Fossils are the remains of once living animals or plants. For thousands of years, people noticed that some rocks looked like plants and animals. They thought they were the remains of recently living plants and animals. It is only in the past 150 to 200 years that scientists realised these rocks were the remains of the ancestors of today’s animals and plants.

• Developments in the study of fossils have enabled palaeontologists (scientists who study the history of life on Earth based on fossil records) to describe patterns and relationships of living things that lived long ago. There are several subdisciplines of palaeontology, including micropalaeontology (microscopic fossils), vertebrate palaeontology, taphonomy (fossil formation) and ichnology (fossil tracks and imprints).

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Answers should indicate: 1. First fossil is a plant (as it is a frond). Second is an animal as it looks like a bone. 2. Body of an insect with a head and thin legs, and wings. Looks like a moth or butterfly. 3. Walked on two legs, had a tail, large head, large jaw, sharp teeth, claws on hands, probably a fierce creature that ate other animals. (Some students may work out it is a T-rex dinosaur skeleton.) 4. Lived in a marine environment as they are fossils of a fish, shells and a starfish. 5. The tracks show a smaller animal’s footprints being followed by a larger animal’s footprints. The larger animal caught the smaller one. They had a struggle and the smaller one was killed and eaten. The larger one walked away, leaving a few bones.

• Only a small percentage of animals and plants fossilise. Most simply decay after death. Of those that fossilise, the most common way is for it to have been buried in mud with subsequent hardening. Other ways include freezing, entrapment in tree sap and preservation in volcanic ash.

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• Source reference books, the internet or pictures on posters containing fossils and palaeontologists at work (optional) for students to view.

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Read the text. A palaeontologist is a scientist who studies plants and animals that lived in the past, like the dinosaurs. Palaeontologists are able to do this mainly by studying fossils. Fossils are the remains of plants or animals that lived long ago. The word ‘fossil’ comes from the Latin word, ‘fossilis’, which means ‘dug up’. Most fossils are dug up from rock layers.

small drills and chisels to clean up the fossils, carefully chipping away at the surrounding rock. The fossils are numbered, photographed and labelled and taken to a laboratory to be cleaned, repaired and studied by palaeontologists.

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Most animal fossils are made from bony parts such as bones, teeth and claws. Over time, these have been covered with sand and mud and become hard, like stone. There are also fossils called trace fossils. These are fossils made from animal droppings, nests and eggs; or marks made by animals, such as footprints.

Very rarely, a whole skeleton can become fossilised so that palaeontologists can then put it back together. Usually, bits of fossilised animal or plant parts are all palaeontologists have to study. Bones and fragments of parts of a skeleton can be put back together. A palaeontologist can work out what the missing bones would look like and have fake ones made to form a whole skeleton. Special tests on bones can show how old a fossil is. Droppings near a part of a skeleton reveal what the animal ate. A lot can be learnt with just footprints. They can show how large an animal was by their size and the length between each step. Footprints can show if a animal walked on two legs or four legs. The impression of a plant fossil tells if it was fern or a palm.

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3. List three animal fossils made from: (a) bony parts:

(b) other things:

4. Why is it harder for a plant to become a fossil than an animal?

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2. Study this fossil and describe what

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3. Study this fossil and describe what

4. These fossils were found together.

you see and how this creature behaved.

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How did the dinosaurs live? • Pages 23 and 24 should be used together. This unit is best treated after completing the previous unit on pages 18 to 21.

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• Ensure students understand the meaning of these words on page 23: ‘extinct’, ‘prey’, ‘prehistoric’.

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• Discuss students answers to Questions 3, 4 and 5 on page 24. • Websites such as <http://www.enchantedlearning.com/subjects/ dinosaurs/> are useful for the students to complete the research task on page 25. Students can draw or attach an illustration of their chosen dinosaur.

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• Dinosaurs are the group of extinct animals that lived during the Mesozoic era, about 230 million years ago. They existed for about 165 million years, mysteriously disappearing about 65 million years ago.

1. (a) Dinosaurs were reptiles with tough, scaly skin. (b) No dinosaurs flew or lived in water./All dinosaurs lived on land. (c) Dinosaurs walked on two or four legs. (d) Dinosaurs did not live at the same time as humans./Dinosaurs were extinct when humans appeared. 2. A carnivore eats only meat and a herbivore eats only plants. 3. Tyrannosaurus. Reasons could include: Had a strong jaw, sharp teeth and claws for ripping flesh; strong legs for chasing prey. 4. To protect itself from dinosaurs that were carnivores. 5. Diplodocus looked like a herbivore as it was heavy and couldn’t run fast and did not have claws. Its teeth would be hard, blunt or flat.

• Students may be confused in thinking that prehistoric animals such as the flying pterodactyl and the swimming plesiosaur are dinosaurs. No dinosaurs flew or lived in water. • Through the study of fossils, palaeontologists have discovered much about dinosaurs in relation to variations in walking, speed of movement, size, feeding habits, coverings and methods of protecting themselves. Not much is known about the colours, patterns, sounds, behaviour or mating habits.

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• Scientists don’t exactly know why the dinosaurs became extinct. Some believe the climate of the world became too cold and the dinosaurs died. Others believe the meat-eating dinosaurs killed so many that the remainder were not able to survive. Another theory is that the first appearance of flowering plants caused the plant-eating dinosaurs to be poisoned. The most popular theory is that a massive meteorite hit Earth, covering it with thick clouds of dust that blocked the sun. Extremely rapid environmental changes occurred, to which the dinosaurs (and many other animals) were unable to adjust. No dinosaur fossils have been found from 65 million years ago, lending support to this mass extinction theory.

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Content focus: How studying fossils has enabled palaeontologists to classify dinosaurs according to different characteristics

• Every year, new dinosaur fossils are discovered all over the world. Approximately 700 species have been named. • Useful websites:

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• Source reference books, the internet or pictures on posters of a variety of dinosaurs for students to view.

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Palaeontologists have learnt much about dinosaurs through studying fossils. They have discovered that dinosaurs were reptiles with scaly skin. The word ‘dinosaur’ comes from two Greek words—‘deino’ and ‘saurus’—meaning ‘terrible lizard’. A lizard, of course, is a reptile. But dinosaurs did not drag their bellies on the ground like lizards—they walked on either two or four legs. However, most dinosaurs laid eggs like reptiles. All dinosaurs lived on land—none flew or lived in water. Any animals that did this are known as prehistoric animals, not dinosaurs. Dinosaurs lived long before humans first appeared. There were dinosaurs on Earth for nearly 150 million years! They have been extinct for 65 million years.

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Some dinosaurs ate plants. These were called ‘herbivores’. Some dinosaurs ate other animals. These were called ‘carnivores’. A few dinosaurs were ‘omnivores’—they ate both plants and animals. Herbivores had hard, blunt teeth for tearing leaves or flat teeth for grinding plants. Carnivores had strong, sharp teeth and claws to kill and tear their prey apart. They usually had strong legs to chase their prey. Dinosaurs had tough skin covered with scales. Many of them had built-in ‘armour’ for protection against the carnivores. These included horns, armoured plates, spikes, frills and tail clubs. Large dinosaurs could be over 30 metres long and weigh as much as 40 tonnes. Some dinosaurs were only the size of a chicken. Dinosaurs are grouped according to the way their hips are shaped. There are two main groups: 1.

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2. What is the difference between a carnivore and a herbivore?

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Science as a Human Endeavour Unit: Use and influence of science

• Pages 27 and 28 should be used together.

Content focus: Aboriginal Australian and Torres Strait Islander people’s knowledge of their local natural environment

• Students should work in pairs or a small group to complete the research on page 29. Some suggestions have been provided below. They could refer to some of the websites listed for other topics to research.

Inquiry skills focus: Questioning and predicting Planning and conducting Processing and analysing data and information Evaluating Communicating Background information

• Suggestions: − how different boomerangs were used to catch different sized animals − how birds returning to a water source signalled rains were on the way − what wax from beehives was used for − what kind of trees were used to construct canoes (or spears) and how they were made − how water was carried − how a specific animal was caught according to their knowledge of its behaviour − how nuts, seeds and fruit were crushed

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• Aboriginal Australian and Torres Strait Islander people’s knowledge of phenomena in their natural environment has developed over time as a result of them observing, investigating and testing ideas. Science has been a part of their everyday experiences.

• Their observance of the characteristics of plants and animals enabled them to utilise both for the purposes of food, shelter, tools, transport, weapons, bush food gathering implements and so on.

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• With assistance, students work out how to present their research to the class or small group. They could compare and discuss the information found about the same topics.

• Useful websites:

<http://www.aboriginalculture.com.au/regionalstudies.shtml> (Photographs and information about Aboriginal life in Northern Queensland)

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1. thousands, Australians, Strait, plants, ways, catch 2. Fire makes many native plants regrow quickly, resulting in more seeds and fruits to collect. It could also be used to flush game towards the waiting hunters. 3. (a) specific yams were poisonous and had to be crushed and thoroughly washed before eating (b) It was easier to catch possums as they slept in their den/hollow during the day. (c) A long, thin trap the same shape as an eel was made to catch it. 4. Witchetty grubs provided fat in the diet. 5. Teacher check

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Read the text. Over many thousands of years, Aboriginal Australians and Torres Strait Islander people have learnt much about the native plants and animals in the areas in which they lived. They discovered the best ways and the right time to collect and catch them for food. They passed this knowledge on from generation to generation. Read about some of the things they discovered.

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The Aboriginal and Islander people used a lot of energy. This meant they needed fat in their diet. They knew the times of the year when different mammals, reptiles and birds were at their fattest and would catch more of those animals during that time.

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Aboriginal people set fire to certain places to clear an area of bush. Fire makes many native plants regrow quickly. This meant there would be more seeds, fruits and so on to collect, eat and store sooner than if the plants grew normally.

Other foods that provided fat were insects like witchetty grubs and begong moths; bird and reptile eggs; and mussels and oysters.

It was the women’s job to gather plants and insects to eat. Yams were an important root vegetable. One type of yam had to be properly prepared or it could make you sick.

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The eel would get caught and could not swim backwards against the water’s flow to get free.

It was the men’s job to hunt animals. They worked in a group using weapons like boomerangs and spears to catch animals such as kangaroos, wallabies, wombats, emus and galahs. In island and coastal communities they also fished.

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Aboriginal and Islander people knew which plants to use to make things like carrying baskets and rope. Bags made from grass stalks could be knotted so tightly they could carry honey! Loosely woven bags made from bush string could be used like sieves to sort seeds. Swamp reeds and sea grasses were woven to make carry baskets. Strong ropes were made from a special kind of palm vine. They were used to help climb trees to get bush honey and reach animals. Another use was a rope noose to catch crocodiles.

that sleep during the day. They would be caught while sleeping in their hollow or den instead of hunting them at night when they came out to feed.

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5. Describe something Aboriginal or Islander people made from plants.

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1. Work in a group. Your teacher will help you to choose a topic to research about the knowledge Aboriginal Australians or Torres Strait Islanders have about using plants or animals. 2. Make notes for each question below to help plan your report.

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How will we present our report?

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How did indigenous people use their knowledge of plants and animals?

How can science help plants and animals? • Pages 31 and 32 should be used together. • When completing the table on page 33, the students should write the name of the place and actual person who works in the job they identify in each section, if possible; e.g. Dr Martin, Greenbay Veterinary Clinic.

Content focus: How science knowledge helps people in jobs related to plants and animals Inquiry skills focus: Questioning and predicting Planning and conducting Processing and analysing data and information Evaluating Communicating Background information

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Choose from three of the following: 1. (a) doctors, nurses, carers, paramedics, pharmacists, dentists, optometrists, physiotherapists, dietitians, trainers in a gym (b) vets, vet nurses, people who work in pet shops, people who work in pet supply stores, pet groomers, mobile dog washing services, animal walking services, wildlife experts or helpers in wildlife parks, people who work in animal sanctuaries or animal shelters, people who run boarding kennels (c) florists, plant nursery experts, farmers 2. (a) pharmacist (b) pet groomer (c) plant nursery expert (d) physiotherapist or doctor (e) florist (f) animal sanctuary worker (g) optometrist 3. A doctor treats humans and a vet treats animals. 4. Answers should indicate they use science to know how to care and treat animals that haven’t been looked after properly by their owners or are not wanted anymore. 5. Teacher check

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• The students’ local community is a familiar location for them to identify how science is used by people whose jobs are connected to plants and animals (including humans). Many people in sciencebased jobs in the community have studied at tertiary level for a degree in an area of science; e.g. doctor, dentist, vet, zookeeper. However, the knowledge and discoveries scientists have made can be used by people who do not necessarily have science degrees; e.g. workers in wildlife sanctuaries or plant nurseries.

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<http://ten.com.au/scope.htm> (This site is an educational TV show targeted towards 8- to 12-year-olds that has many useful links related to the theme.)

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• Students could be shown segments from lifestyle shows involving science in a community; e.g. the regular veterinary presenter explaining how to care for a specific breed of dog, or the regular gardening expert explaining how to set up an organic vegetable plot. Students could also watch DVDs such as Bindi the jungle girl, starring Bindi Irwin. Preparation

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• Source fiction and nonfiction books about the jobs of some of the people mentioned in the text. Show the students relevant pictures as you discuss the text with them. (optional)

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Read the text. Many people in our community have a job involving science. A lot of them are in the area of caring for plants and animals, including humans. Think about vets, zookeepers, doctors, dentists and experts at a plant nursery. They all use science to help them in their job. Using science to help humans

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Doctors and nurses look after us at our local medical centre or hospital. Trained carers visit the sick and elderly in their homes. There are also paramedics in ambulances who assist at car accidents and in other medical emergencies. Pharmacists are specially trained to advise us about medications. Dentists have studied how to care for our teeth and optometrists have studied how to care for our eyes. Physiotherapists care for our body by using massage, exercise and other treatments. Dietitians give advice about special diets. Science is used by trained staff in gyms so we use exercise equipment properly and train our bodies safely and effectively. Using science to help animals

Vets and vet nurses are the first people we think about who look after animals. People who work in pet shops and pet supply stores use science to advise us on how to look after our pets by suggesting specific foods, shelters, bedding, toys and so on. Other jobs involving pet care include pet grooming, mobile dog washing and animal walkers.

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There are zookeepers and other animal experts who work in zoos. Wildlife experts and helpers work in wildlife parks, rearing and caring for animals. Animal sanctuaries care for sick and injured animals before releasing them back into the wild, if possible. Animal shelters, like those run by the RSPCA, take care of animals who have been mistreated or are unwanted by their owners, until new owners are found. Boarding kennels care for our pets while we are on holidays.

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How can science help plants and animals? – 1

How can science help plants and animals? – 2 1. List three jobs involving science that can help: (a) humans (b) animals (c) plants

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(a) you had a prescription to get some medicine? (b) your pet poodle needed its coat clipped? (c) leaves on a rose bush in your garden were covered in black spots? (d) you twisted your ankle badly playing sport?

(e) you wanted to buy a bouquet of flowers? (f)

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5. Describe a time when you have visited someone whose job involves science.

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Science in the community 1. Look at the headings in the table below. Your task is to fill in the names of jobs involving science you have seen at home (on TV etc.) and in the community. In each section, write the name of the place or person who does that job. List at least two for each section if possible. 2. When you have finished, share your answers with a partner. Discuss how science helps care for plants, animals or us in each answer.

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What is the difference between a solid, a liquid and a gas? • After discussing their observations from page 37, talk about whether any parts of the activity could be improved; e.g. scales not being sensitive enough to register weight, ball not being fully inflated.

Content focus: Properties of solids, liquids and gases Inquiry skills focus: Questioning and predicting Planning and conducting Processing and analysing data and information Evaluating Communicating Background information

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• Solids, liquids and gases are three states of matter. (A fourth state, plasma, which is a distinct state of matter containing a significant number of electrically charged particles, is also recognised.) Matter is made up of particles called atoms and molecules. These are very closely arranged in a regular pattern in solids, and, generally, do not move. In liquids, the atoms and molecules are close together, have no regular arrangement and move freely. In gases, they move rapidly, have large spaces between them and no regular arrangement. • Because of these arrangements, solids have mass, a definite volume and a definite shape. Liquids have mass, a definite volume and no definite shape. Gases have mass, no definite volume and no definite shape. Note: The common term ‘weight’ has been used in this unit instead of the scientifically correct term ‘mass’, as it is easier for students at this level to understand. Mass is a measure of how much matter an object has. Weight is determined by gravity. (Your mass would be the same on the moon but you would weigh less as there is less gravity.) • Useful websites:

1. Students should say the cup is light/hardly weighs anything. Its weight should just register on the scales. 2. Students should predict the cup would feel heavier and measuring will prove that. 3. Measuring will show the cup with the solid (eraser) is heavier. 4. The inflated ball will be slightly heavier than the deflated ball because it is now filled with air. 5. Answers should indicate that solids, liquids and gases have weight.

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1. Matter is anything that takes up space and has mass (weight). 2. (a) liquid (b) gas (c) solid (d) liquid 3. They all have mass./They all take up space. 4. (a) Yes (b) No (c) No (d) No (e) No (f) Yes 5. (a) packed together tightly, hardly move (b) close together, always moving around each other (c) far apart, spread out to fill up the space 6. Possible answers: sugar, flour, rice, nuts, pepper Science as a Human Endeavour question Nature and development of science: Possible answers: car tyre, bike tyre, gas oven, gas barbecue, bicycle pump, gas hot plates, gas hot water system.

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• Obtain the items mentioned in paragraph 1 of the text on page 35.

• Collect the equipment needed for the investigative activity on page 37. A basketball, netball or football could be used. The bicycle pump can be used to remove the air from the ball if it is already inflated. The lessons

• Pages 35 and 36 should be used together. Ensure students understand the meaning of the word ‘properties’.

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What is the difference between a solid, a liquid and a gas? – 1 Read the text. How many of these things can you find in your classroom? A book, a bottle of glue, a ruler, a cup of water, a chair and a blown-up balloon? They are all different types of matter. Matter is anything that takes up space and has mass (weight). Matter is all around you— even the air is a form of matter! Matter can be a solid, a liquid or a gas. These are called states of matter. We can tell the difference between solids, liquids and gases because they have different properties (things they can do).

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A liquid has an exact size but does not have a definite shape. It changes shape according to the type of container it is in. A liquid can be poured but a solid can not. We say a liquid can flow. Some liquids are thicker than others; for example, honey is thicker than milk.

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A gas does not have a shape or size. It spreads out until it fills the container it is in. Like liquid, a gas can flow. A gas can get bigger or smaller to fit in different sized containers. A gas like the air has no colour—we cannot see it. We can feel air blowing and see bubbles of air if we blow air into a straw placed in a glass of water.

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A solid has a definite size and shape. It can be hard like a brick or soft like a pillow. A solid can change its shape only if we do things to it like bending it or cutting it.

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All solids, liquids and gases can be weighed. A solid like a pebble won’t weigh much but it can be weighed. A gas like the air may feel like it doesn’t weigh anything at all but it too can be weighed.

What is the difference between a solid, a liquid and a gas? – 2 Use the text on page 35 to complete the following. 1. What does the word ‘matter’ mean?

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3. What is one property that all solids, liquids and gases have?

4. Write YES or NO next to each question. (a) Does a solid have a definite shape?

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• 2 identical clear plastic cups

• kitchen scales

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• deflated basketball

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1. (a) Hold one of the cups in one hand. Describe its weight.

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(a) How do you think it will feel when you hold it now?

(b) Hold it in one hand and describe its weight.

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5. What did you learn from doing this activity?

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2. Pour water (liquid) into the cup until it is about three-quarters full.

What happens when solids and liquids are heated and cooled? Answers

Content focus: How heating and cooling can change the state of solids and liquids

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1. honey, milk, raw egg 2. Answers should indicate that margarine is a solid in the fridge or at room temperature. When heated, it becomes a liquid. When cooled it becomes a solid once more. 3. … a substance changes state and cannot be changed back again … 4. (a) No, irreversible (b) Yes, reversible 5. (a) False (b) False (c) False

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Temperatures will vary, except for the oven which should show it has been preheated to 180 ºC. (Obviously, the students will use the gauge as a guide and not actually use the thermometer!) A summary of what should happen is provided below. Allow the students to touch the chocolate before recording to help them describe what happened. Digital photographs could be taken at appropriate intervals. (a) The chocolate in the classroom should look the same and remain a solid and be at room temperature to touch. (b) The chocolate in full sun will melt and become a thick liquid (at an interval depending on how hot the day is), could feel slightly warm if a hot day and be sticky and possibly quite runny to touch. (c) Depending on the heat of the day, the chocolate may or may not partially or fully melt. (d) Chocolate will take a very short time to melt. (Don’t allow it to stay too long in oven.) It may even bubble if it reaches boiling point. When first taken out of the oven it will be a runny liquid and quite warm to touch. (Take care it is not too hot for students to touch.) (e) Chocolate will remain solid and cool to touch.

• Most students would say that a substance like rock could never become a liquid as normal conditions do not provide enough heat. Rocks become liquid if near the extreme temperatures of the Earth’s core. If moved away from the Earth’s core due to a force such as an earthquake or volcano, they will cool and become igneous rock.

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• Some changes to these substances are physical (reversible). They may change appearance after changing from one state to another but are still the same material and can be changed back. Other changes can be chemical (irreversible). A new substance is made and cannot be changed back. • Useful websites:

<http://www.fossweb.com/modulesK-2/SolidsandLiquids/index. html> (Interactive game changing solids to liquids and liquids to solids)

<http://www.sciencekids.co.nz/gamesactivities/statematerials.html> (Water as a solid, liquid and gas)

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• All liquids and solids can change states by being heated or cooled. However, the temperature needed for a solid to be melted to become liquid or cooled to change from liquid to solid varies.

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• Provide some of the examples of the substances discussed on page 39.

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• Collect the equipment needed for the investigative activities on page 41. The lessons • Pages 39 and 40 should be used together.

• This section is best treated after completing pages 34–37. Though several of the scientific terms are revised in the text, ensure students understand the terms ‘matter‘, ‘states of matter’, ‘substance’, ‘solid’, ‘liquid’ etc. if those pages have not been treated.

• Students can work in a small group or as a whole class for the activity on page 41. Discuss how they can ensure the test is fair or not (all chocolate bars must be the identical). • Preheat the oven to 180 °C.

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What happens when solids and liquids are heated and cooled? – 1 Read the text. Matter is any material that takes up space and has mass (weight). Liquids and solids are two states of matter. Examples of liquids are water, milk and honey. Wood, fruit and sugar are examples of solids.

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When a substance changes state, it can sometimes change back. This is called a reversible change. No new substance is made. If it can not be changed back again, it is called irreversible. A new substance has been made. Here is an example of each. Reversible change

Irreversible change

The margarine described above turned from a solid to a liquid through heating. It turned back to a solid when it was cooled.

Inside a raw egg is thick, liquid egg white and even thicker liquid yellow yolk. If it is cracked onto a heated frying pan, it can be heated (cooked) until it becomes a solid fried egg. (Sometimes the yolk can be left a bit runny.) It cannot become a raw egg again, even if it is left to cool.

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A liquid can change into a solid and a solid can change into a liquid. We call this changing states. For example, a tub of margarine is a solid in the fridge or at room temperature on the kitchen bench. If it is heated in a microwave, it becomes a liquid. If it is left to cool, it will become a solid once more.

What happens when solids and liquids are heated and cooled? – 2 Use the text on page 39 to complete the following. 1. Colour the substances that are liquids at room temperature. sugar

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In a reversible change, a substance changes state and can be changed back again.

In an irreversible change, a

4. Write Yes or No in the first space and Reversible or Irreversible in the second space.

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The chocolate experiment Investigate what happens to chocolate when it is placed in different areas of the school. Equipment: â&#x20AC;˘ 5 identical bars of dairy milk chocolate â&#x20AC;˘ thermometer â&#x20AC;˘ 1 ovenproof tray â&#x20AC;˘ oven â&#x20AC;˘ 4 paper plates Procedure: í˘ą Put four bars on paper plates and one on tray.

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(a) Position of chocolate and temperature: Â°C Temperature On the desk in the middle of the classroom What do you think will happen? Were you correct? if not, what did happen?

(b) Position of chocolate and temperature: Â°C Temperature Outside in the full sun What do you think will happen? Were you correct? if not, what did happen?

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(c) Position of chocolate and temperature: Â°C Temperature Outside in the shade What do you think will happen? Were you correct? if not, what did happen?

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(d) Position of chocolate and temperature: Â°C Temperature In the oven What do you think will happen? Were you correct? if not, what did happen?

(e) Position of chocolate and temperature: Â°C Temperature In the fridge What do you think will happen? Were you correct? if not, what did happen?

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í˘˛ Record temperature at each place in table. í˘ł Place chocolate in each of the locations. í˘´ Observe what happens and record in table.

How can changing materials from solid to liquid be useful? The lessons

Content focus: Practical purposes (particularly those related to recycling) of changing materials from solid to liquid and liquid to solid

• Pages 43 and 44 should be used together. • Students can work in a small group for the activity on page 45. Some of the websites listed above would be helpful in their research. Suggestions for solid and liquid materials for them to investigate could include: car batteries; outdated medicines; cooking oil; paint; specific or general cleaning products such as varnish and bleach; asbestos; electronic goods such as computers, tyres; mobile phones and televisions; glass; metal; cars and other vehicles; pesticides; boat flares; gas cylinders; pool chemicals.

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• With assistance, students work out how to present their research to the class or small group. Compare and discuss the information found about the same materials.

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1. Teacher check 2. Answers should indicate that when gold is mined it can be heated to become a liquid and poured into moulds to make ingots of a set size. These are easier to buy and transport. Ingots can be melted again to make gold products. 3. (a) plastic: Teacher check examples (b) steel: Teacher check examples (c) aluminium: Teacher check examples (d) glass: Teacher check examples 4. Teacher check 5. Teacher check

• In this unit, students will be made aware of some positive aspects of changing the state of different materials, along with some negative aspects relating to polluting the environment. • Useful websites:

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<http://www.recycling-guide.org.uk/rrr.html> (How to safely recycle different materials)

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<http://www.burkesbackyard.com.au/factsheets/Conservation-andthe-Environment/Chemical-Disposal/187> (Correct disposal of a variety of materials) Preparation

• Provide some of the examples of the materials discussed on page 43.

• Students will need access to the internet and other reference material to complete the research activity on page 45.

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How can changing materials from solid to liquid be useful? – 1 Read the text.

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There are reasons people in different jobs change materials from liquid to solid and solid to liquid. Think about people who work with a metal such as gold. After it is mined and treated, gold is heated until it becomes a liquid and a set amount can be poured into a container. It is cooled and becomes a solid again—it has become a gold ingot. This makes it easier for manufacturers to buy and transport. The ingot will be melted again before being made into jewellery, coins, caps for teeth and so on. Did you know that changing solids to liquids and liquids to solids is also very useful for recycling many materials? Read about how this characteristic helps four different kinds of materials to be recycled. Glass

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Solid steel objects are sent to a steelmaking plant where they are melted down with other materials. The liquid metal is poured into moulds and left to become solid. A machine cuts it into large pieces to be sent to various factories to make new steel products such as tools and car parts.

Aluminium cans are squashed into bales. These are shredded and have the paint removed. The pieces are melted then poured into containers to make ingots. These are rolled into very thin, coiled aluminium sheets and made into new aluminium cans.

Plastic bottles are sorted into different types then squashed into bales. A machine cuts them into flakes. These are cleaned, melted down, then made into new plastic items such as garden chairs, bottles and bins.

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Solids can be changed to liquids and liquids can be changed to solids. This can be very useful in our everyday lives. A lump of solid butter can be melted to become liquid and mixed with other ingredients to make biscuits, cakes and so on. Water can be made into solid ice blocks to keep drinks cold or food cold in coolers. We can choose between a solid bar of soap to wash ourselves in the shower or a pump bottle of liquid soap. Can you think of other useful ways we change solids to liquids and liquids to solids?

How can changing materials from solid to liquid be useful? – 2 Use the text on page 43 to complete the following. 1. Give another example and use it (see paragraph 1) about a way we change a material from a solid to a liquid or a liquid to a solid.

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2. How is being able to change a material from solid to liquid and back again useful for a person who works with gold?

3. Unjumble four different materials that can be recycled by methods involving changing solids to liquids and liquids to solids. Next to each material, write one new product that it can be made into.

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What do we already know about it?

Is there any information about how to dispose of it on the material or its packaging?

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2. Make notes next to each question in the table to help plan your report.

What are some of the objects we can see from Earth? The lessons

Content focus: Space bodies that make up our solar system and beyond

• Pages 47 and 48 should be used together. • The following website (along with some of those listed above) would be useful to help students find the answers to Question 2 on page 49.

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<http://www.enchantedlearning.com/subjects/astronomy/planets/ index.shtml>

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1. (a) Possible answers: clouds/aircraft/rainbows/birds (b) Possible answers: sun/moons/stars/planets/comets/asteroids/ meteors 2. (a) sun (b) comets (c) meteors (d) moon (e) planets (f) dwarf planet (g) asteroids (h) Ceres 3. A moon orbits a planet and a planet doesn’t orbit a moon. OR A moon is always smaller than the planet it orbits. 4. (a) Venus is hotter than Neptune. (b) All stars are not the same size. (c) The moon is smaller than Earth.

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• Many of the space bodies can be viewed with the naked eye, without the need for a telescope—sun; Earth’s moon; stars; five of the planets, depending on the position of the Earth in its orbit (Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn, minus its rings), comets and meteors. • Plutoids were previously categorised as dwarf planets. However, the International Astronomical Union decided to categorise celestial bodies like Pluto and Eris in orbit around the sun further than Neptune’s orbit, plutoids. Ceres is a dwarf planet as it does not orbit in this range.

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2. (a) Jupiter (c) Venus (e) Saturn

(b) Mercury (d) Neptune (f) Mars

Preparation • Colour photographs in reference books or charts of the solar system and the various space bodies would be useful to display while treating this section.

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What are some of the objects we can see from Earth? – 1 Read the text. Think about what these words have in common—clouds, stars, the sun, the moon, aircraft, rainbows and birds. Can you guess? They are some of the objects we can see from Earth. Some, like the clouds, are closer to us in the atmosphere. Others, like the stars, are far away in outer space.

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pull themselves into a round shape. But they don’t have enough gravity to control other space bodies around them. Examples of plutoids are Pluto and Eris. Ceres, found in the asteroid belt, is a dwarf planet.

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There are eight planets in our solar system: Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Neptune and Uranus. All the planets orbit the sun at different distances from it. Those like Mercury and Venus that are closer to the sun are much hotter than those like Neptune and Uranus that are much further away.

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Most of the planets have one or more moons. A moon is a space body that orbits a planet as it orbits the sun. All of a planet’s moons are smaller than it. Earth has one moon. Jupiter has the most discovered so far—63!

Asteroids are chunks of rock which orbit the sun, mainly in a belt between Mars and Jupiter. They can be as small as a grain of sand or as large as a small planet.

The twinkling stars we see are far beyond our solar system. They are not all the same as our sun—they can be bigger, smaller, hotter or cooler.

Meteors are pieces of rocky or metal material which come into the Earth’s atmosphere and burn up. They look like bright streaks of light. Sometimes we call them falling stars or shooting stars, but they are not really stars. R.I.C. Publications®

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The sun is the centre of the solar system and is actually a star. It is made up of extremely hot burning gases. It gives Earth heat and light. Although the sun is enormous compared with Earth, it is only a medium-sized star. It looks bigger and brighter than the other stars because it is so much closer to Earth.

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Outer space is made up of space bodies such as the sun, stars, moons, planets, dwarf planets, comets, asteroids and meteors. Except for the stars, all of these space bodies are found in our solar system. That is the name we give to the sun and all the space bodies that orbit (travel around) it. To see many of these objects, we need to use a powerful telescope.

What are some of the objects we can see from Earth? – 2 Use the text on page 47 to complete the following. 1. List three objects you can see in: (a) Earth’s atmosphere. (b) outer space.

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(b) Chunks of dirty ice, dust and gas.

(c) Rocky or metal material which enter the Earth’s atmosphere and burn up. (d) Earth has one of these. (e) There are eight of these in our solar system.

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(b) is the smallest.

(d) is the coldest.

(e) has huge rings.

(f) appears red.

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Content focus: Significance of the rotation of the Earth on its axis and its revolution around the sun

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1. Teacher check 2. (a) 24 hours (b) 365 days/1 year 3. We have night-time because the Earth rotates. The part of the Earth not facing the sun experiences night-time. 4. Possible answers: Earth rotates, sun does not/Earth revolves around the sun, sun does not/sun is a star, Earth is not/sun is made of hot burning gases, Earth is not/Earth appears blue from space, sun appears yellow/sun is much larger than Earth 5. summer 6. four, sun, axis, Earth, sun, winter Science as a Human Endeavour question Nature and development of science An astronomer is a scientist who studies space and all the things in it.

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Teacher check If the unit on pages 46 to 49 has not been covered, explain to the students the comparative size of the sun and the Earth before completing this activity. (Refer to the information on page 46.)

<http://www.bbc.co.uk/science/space/solarsystem/earth/ solsticescience.shtml> < http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=knK87GoNyGo> (Shows sun shining on Earth as it slowly rotates causing day and night)

<http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DuiQvPLWziQ> (Shows how the tilt of the Earth causes the seasons) Preparation

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• Pages 51 and 52 should be used together. A globe of the Earth would be useful in helping to show rotation, along with a torch to represent the sun.

• As a further extension to the investigations on page 53, do the following activity with the students to assist with understanding the seasons. Place the large ball on a table to represent the sun. Use the Earth prop with the clay attached and rotate it on its axis while you slowly revolve around the sun. Stop the clay bob at each ‘season’ to show what is happening according to whether it is facing more or less directly towards the sun.

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Why do we have days, nights, years and seasons? – 1 Read the text. From outer space, the Earth looks like a gigantic ball. You would see some white clouds surrounding it, lots of blue sections which are the oceans and brown parts which are the continents. The Earth does not stay still. It is continuously spinning round and round on its axis. We call this ‘rotating’. The Earth’s axis is an imaginary line drawn through the centre of the Earth from the North Pole to the South Pole. It takes 24 hours to spin the whole way round or make one rotation. The time it takes to do this is called a ‘day’.

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How does the Earth rotate and revolve? You need to work with a partner to complete these activities. Follow the instructions and tick the boxes as you complete each step or activity.

Investigation 1 This activity will help you understand how the Earth rotates on its axis and we get night and day. Equipment:

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1. Carefully push the skewer through the middle of the foam ball. The ball is ‘Earth’ and skewer is Earth’s ‘axis’.

3. One of you holds the Earth on a slight tilt. Slowly rotate the Earth on the tilt. The other shines the torch (sun) at the Earth as it rotates. When the sun shines on the modelling clay, it is daytime where you live.

4. Swap places and repeat step 3.

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1. One student holds the large ball on his or her head. This is the ‘sun’. 2. The other holds the Earth and slowly rotates it while tilted on its axis. While you are doing this, slowly take small sidesteps as you move (revolve) around the sun. It will take a ‘year’ to orbit the sun. 3. Swap places and repeat Step 2.

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Extra!: One of you pretends to be the ‘Earth’ and sits on a swivel chair. The other holds a torch and is the ‘sun’. The sun shines on the Earth as it rotates (as the chair swivels).

How does the sun make shadows? Answers

Content focus: The sun can form shadows and their length changes during the day Investigating how sundials work

Page 56 1. A shadow is made when an object blocks out light, such as from the sun. 2. It leaves a dark area because it is a space where no light can reach. 3. (b) 4. (a) The sun should be to the left of the picture and low in the sky. (b) The sun should be directly over the dog in the picture. 5. Answer should indicate that your shadow can’t be seen as the clouds block much of the sun’s light so the light isn’t bright enough to form a shadow. 6. (a) behind you (b) in front of you (c) to your left

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• Not all objects block light waves. Light can pass through clear objects such as glass and water. These are called ‘transparent’. Other objects let some light through but you cannot clearly see what is on the other side; e.g. waxed paper and frosted glass. These are called ‘translucent’. Some things do not let any light through; e.g. buildings, cars, people. These are called ‘opaque’ and can make shadows.

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1. For students to have predicted correctly, they should draw a line from the pencil to the edge of the card at a slightly higher interval from the 9 am measurement. 2. The results should look similar to this diagram.

• The position of the sun changes as the Earth rotates on its axis. It is not the sun that moves. The sun appears to rise in the east and set in the west because the Earth spins west to east (anticlockwise) on its axis. • Throughout the ages, the sun has been used by many cultures to tell the time. Before shadow sticks and sundials, Ancient Egyptians built tall towers called obelisks to tell the time by looking at the shadows.

3. Answers should indicate that at each hour, the pencil cast a shadow further away from the previous hour. The intervals look similar to those on a clock. 4. Possible answers: A sundial can only be used to tell the time on a sunny day. It’s hard to tell the exact time between the hours. The sundial isn’t as accurate as a clock. It would be hard to use a sundial inside. Note: If students repeat this activity in exactly the same way more than two weeks later, they will find the shadows are different and don’t align with the marks on the card from the previous activity. This is because the position of the sun changes throughout the year, due to the Earth’s elliptical orbit and its axial tilt.

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• In the activity on page 57, the students are, in essence, making and monitoring a shadow stick, rather than a sundial. A commercial sundial is usually made of a dial plate marked out with hour lines and a raised section called a ‘gnomon’ that casts a shadow. A sundial must be made specifically for the position where it will be used and pointed in the right direction.

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<http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lcL2f-KInWI> (Demonstration showing how to make a sundial using a different method from that on page 57) Preparation

• Collect the equipment needed to make the sundial on page 57. Choose a sunny day without wind or rain to carry out the activity. The lessons • Pages 55 and 56 should be used together. • Follow the suggestion in the final sentence on page 55, so students can actually see the sun shadow facts in real life. Ensure you work with them on this page on a sunny day!

• Students can work in a small group to make and monitor the sundial on page 57.

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How does the sun make shadows? – 1 Read the text. On a sunny day, have you ever played a game outside with someone where you try to jump on each other’s shadow? Do you know how a shadow is made? A shadow is made when an object blocks out a bright light, such as the sun, a torch or a streetlight. When you stand outside on a sunny day, your body blocks out some of the sunlight from reaching the ground. Light travels in a straight line. It cannot bend very well around you. Your shadow is the dark area on the ground in the shape of your body. It is dark because it is a space where light can’t reach.

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Have you noticed that your shadow can change size? Sometimes it looks long, other times it looks short and sometimes it has almost disappeared. It depends on where the sun appears in the sky. Early in the morning the sun appears low in the sky. Your shadow will be long at this time of the day. Later in the morning, the sun appears higher in the sky. Your shadow will be shorter. By noon, in the middle of the day, the sun appears almost directly overhead. Your shadow is the shortest at this time of day. The same pattern happens in the afternoon. Your shadow gradually gets longer as it gets later in the afternoon and the sun appears lower in the sky.

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How does the sun make shadows? – 2 Use the text on page 55 to complete the following. 1. Describe how a shadow is made.

2. Why does a shadow leave a dark space?

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How does a sundial work? Long before clocks and watches were used to tell the time, people used sundials. Follow the directions below to make and use your own sundial. Materials: â&#x20AC;˘ large, thick sheet of white or coloured card â&#x20AC;˘ pencil or length of dowelling â&#x20AC;˘ lump of plasticine â&#x20AC;˘ ruler â&#x20AC;˘ felt-tipped marking pens â&#x20AC;˘ stickers Procedure:

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1. Draw what you think will happen at 10 am.

Why does the moon change shape? • Students could work in pairs on the observation activity on page 61. Ask them to predict what they think the moon will look like before they check each night. Explain to the students that the first observation they make of the moon on the first day of the chosen month will not necessarily be of a new or full moon.

Content focus: Phases of the moon Inquiry skills focus: Questioning and predicting Planning and conducting Processing and analysing data and information Evaluating Communicating

• Students should compare and discuss their observations in the table with others in the class. Answers

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1. 24, one, 29, one, one 2. We see the moon because it reflects light from the sun. 3. We see the moon change shape/go through different phases because different amounts of sunlight are reflected off it as it orbits. 4. (a) New moon (b) First quarter (c) Waxing gibbous or Waning gibbous 5. The sliver of light we see is on the left side of the moon in the waxing crescent phase and the right in the waning crescent phase. 6. Because the Earth is between the sun and the moon. Science as a Human Endeavour question Nature and development of science Some things Galileo Galilei discovered with his telescope were the rings of Saturn, four major moons of Jupiter (Io, Europa, Ganymede and Callisto), the phases of Venus, sunspots and that the moon was not smooth but covered with craters and mountains.

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• The moon is the Earth’s only natural satellite. It is believed to have been formed from debris created after a space body the size of Mars collided with Earth. Examination of rocks brought back from the moon supports this theory.

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• Because the moon rotates once on its own axis at approximately the same time as it orbits once around Earth, only one side of the moon ever faces Earth.

• A crescent moon is so called as it is shaped like a crescent or ‘C’. The term ‘waxing’ refers to the increase in the extent of the illuminated portion of the moon before the full moon/more of the moon’s sunlit side becomes visible to Earth. The term ‘waning’ refers to the decrease in the extent of its illuminated portion after the full moon/ less of the moon’s sunlit side becomes visible to Earth. The word ‘gibbous’ means ‘protuberant’ or ‘convex’. A gibbous moon refers to when the moon appears to have a convex shape in between the full moon and half moon phases.

• In the southern hemisphere, the moon waxes and wanes from the left. In the northern hemisphere, this occurs from the right.

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• Colour photographs of the moon and phases in reference books or the internet would be useful to display while treating this section. • Reference books or the internet need to be available for students to complete the last question on page 60. One useful website is <http://www.zoomschool.com/inventors/1600.shtml> • Provide a chart with the labelled phases of the moon to complete page 61. Students could also refer to the diagram on page 59. The lessons • Pages 59 and 60 should be used together.

• When students study the diagram of the phases of the moon on page 59, ensure they are looking at the moon from the Earth’s position and not the sun’s.

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Why does the moon change shape? – 1 Read the text. Earth has only one moon. It is our closest neighbour in outer space—about 384 000 kilometres away. A spacecraft takes about three days to get there. Our moon moves in two ways. It spins (rotates) on its axis like the Earth does. However, it does this much more slowly. The Earth takes 24 hours or one day to rotate. The moon takes around 29 days or about one month! As it rotates, the moon is also travelling around (orbiting) the Earth. This also takes about one month.

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The moon has no heat or light of its own—it reflects light from the sun. From Earth, we only see one side of the moon; the other side faces towards space. We usually see the moon at night but sometimes it can be seen in the day. Have you noticed that the moon doesn’t look the same all the time? It seems to change shape as it orbits Earth. These changes in the way it looks are called ‘phases’. They occur because we see different amounts of the sun’s light reflected off the moon during the time it orbits the Earth. Each phase of the moon has a different name to describe its shape.

Why does the moon change shape? – 2 Use the text on page 59 to complete the following. 1. Fill in the missing numbers. The Earth takes

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5. What is different about what we see of the moon in the phases called the waxing crescent and the waning crescent?

6. Why can we see all the moon during the full moon phase?

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Observing the moon 1. Look at the moon each night (or day if visible) from the first day of the month to see the phases of the moon. 2. Draw what you see in the ‘moon’ shapes. Colour black the part of the moon you cannot see. 3. Write the numbers 1, 2 etc. in the bottom left-hand side of each box to show the date. 4. Write the names of each phase next to the date.

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Science as a Human Endeavour Substrand: Nature and the development of science

• Pages 63 and 64 should be used together. • Students should work in pairs on the recount activity on page 65. A website and some suggestions for traditional Aboriginal Australian or Torres Strait Islander astronomy stories are provided below.

Content focus: Investigating ancient peoples (especially Aboriginal Australian and Torres Strait Islanders) knowledge and use of astronomical bodies

• This website lists eight stories for students to choose to read and then plan their recount:

Inquiry skills focus: Questioning and predicting Planning and conducting Processing and analysing data and information Evaluating Communicating

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• The naked eye can only see about 2000+ stars—there are thousands of millions which cannot be seen easily.

1. A constellation is a group of stars that makes a pattern or picture in the sky. 2. They gave names to the stars and the constellations to remember their location. 3. Hercules. Answers should describe him kneeling on one leg with a club raised in his right hand and left hand aimed at a target. 4. (a) It helped Aboriginal Australians and Islanders to know south. (b) It helped ancient sailors in the Northern Hemisphere know north. 5. make up calendars, tell the time at night, when to plant crops 6. Tucana, the toucan/Microscopium, the microscope

• Many cultures have different interpretations for the same constellations (named groups of stars). Even people from different groups or tribes from the same culture can have different interpretations. (Refer to the third website listed below.) • Useful websites:

<http://www.kidsastronomy.com/astroskymap/constellation_hunt. htm> (Interactive game identifying constellations)

<http://www.windows2universe.org/mythology/stars.html> (Links to myths about the sky, constellations and stars)

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<http://www.oneminuteastronomer.com/2010/07/16/legendssouthern-cross/> (Describes interpretations of the Southern Cross constellation by different cultures, including Aboriginal Australians and Torres Strait Islanders) <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australian_Aboriginal_astronomy> (Site for teachers to read and give information about different groups of Aboriginal Australians’ interpretation of constellations etc.) Preparation

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• Photographs or diagrams of some constellations from reference books or the internet would be useful to display while treating this section.

• Students will need access to the internet and other reference material to complete page 65.

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How did ancient peoples use astronomy? – 1 Read the text. If you look up to the sky on a clear night, you will see more stars than you can count. Because there are so many, if you try to count them you will forget which ones you have counted and which ones you haven’t! Long ago, people noticed that groups of stars made patterns, a bit like dot-to-dot pictures, in the sky. These groups of stars are called ‘constellations’. People gave names to the constellations and created stories about them to remember the locations of stars in the sky.

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The dot diagram shows the main stars in the constellation. The other shows a drawing over the stars of what people thought Hercules could look like. Can you see how they imagined him kneeling on one leg with a club raised in his right hand? And his left hand is aimed at a target?

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Southern Hemisphere, south of the equator. Not all constellations can be seen in both hemispheres. Some can only be seen at certain times of the year. It depends on the Earth’s position as it revolves around the sun. The stars, constellations and other space bodies like the planet Venus were very important to ancient cultures. Did you know they used them to find how to get from one place to another? For example, ancient sailors in the Northern Hemisphere used a star in a constellation called Little Dipper to tell them which way was north. The Southern Cross constellation in the Southern Hemisphere helped people such as Aboriginal Australians and Torres Strait Islanders know which way was south.

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Other reasons ancient people used the positions of the constellations at various times of the year included helping them to make up calendars, telling the time at night and knowing when to plant different crops. Today, astronomers have named 88 constellations. Many of the names are still the same as in ancient times. Some newer constellations include Tucana, the toucan, and Microscopium, the microscope. R.I.C. Publications®

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Many constellations have names from Greek and Roman myths. The constellation shown is called ‘Hercules’. He was a strong, fearless hero who defeated many beasts.

How did ancient peoples use astronomy? – 2 Use the text on page 63 to complete the following. 1. What is a ‘constellation’?

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Stories about the sky Traditional Aboriginal Australians and Torres Strait Islanders passed down stories from generation to generation. Many of these explain how space bodies like the sun and moon came to be. Your teacher will help you and your partner to choose one of their stories about the sky to plan and write a recount to share with the class. Use the headings below to help. (Use bullet points.) Title:

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What is heat and how is it produced? Answers

Content focus: Sources of heat and ways it can be produced

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1. Heat, power 2. The Earth would receive too much heat, making it too hot to survive. 3. Answers should describe making fire by rubbing two sticks together or using a flint. 4. wood, coal, oil, natural gas 5. They rub their hands together to produce warmth from friction. 6. (a) rough surfaces (b) quickly 7. (a) kettles/hot water systems/toasters/irons/ovens/heaters (b) Teacher check Science as a Human Endeavour question Use and influence of science: Students could suggest wearing long pants, sliding down on a towel or wetting the slide to reduce friction and heat.

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• Heat is one of the important factors that ensure our survival. Our body temperature must be maintained at approximately 37 ºC or we would not live very long. The food we eat provides the ‘fuel’ needed to maintain this temperature. There would be no food without the heat (and light) from the sun. Plants and animals could not survive.

The students should discover that rubbing rougher surfaces together produces more heat than smoother surfaces. Water and lotion on their hands makes the surface of their hands softer and more lubricating so not as much heat will be felt when compared with rubbing their bare hands together, on the carpet or on the desk.

• Fire is a type of chemical reaction. Heating a fuel such as wood causes it to burn, which gives off heat. • Heat is made from friction because molecules in each material being rubbed together move faster when in motion. Energy is lost in the form of heat.

• Other sources of heat not discussed on page 67 include nuclear reactions using uranium or plutonium, and geothermal heat—heat from underneath the Earth’s crust. • Useful website:

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• Provide pictures or actual items of some of the objects/appliances discussed on page 67. (Students could also identify heat-producing appliances in their classroom and school.)

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What is heat and how is it produced? – 1 Read the text. Heat is a form of energy or power. Anything that gives off heat is a source of heat. The sun is the first source of heat most people think of. We feel its heat, specially on a hot day. This enormous ball of very hot gases produces a tremendous amount of heat (and light). However, only a small portion of the sun’s heat reaches Earth. If Earth was closer to the sun, it would be too hot over the entire planet for people to survive.

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On a cold day, have you ever rubbed your hands together to try to get them warm? This source of heat comes from ‘friction’. This is the same method used by people long ago to make fire. When two surfaces are rubbed together, heat is produced. The rougher the surfaces, the more heat is produced. Also, the greater the speed the surfaces are rubbed together, the greater the heat produced. Try rubbing your hands together slowly. Then try rubbing your hands together quickly. What do you notice?

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Fire is another source of heat. It is not known when fire was first used by people for warmth (and light and cooking). The first fires were probably from lightning strikes. Long ago, people learnt to make fire by rubbing two sticks together. This rubbing action made glowing wood dust. If the dust fell onto a pile of dry leaves and tiny bits of wood, a fire could be started. Later, people discovered that striking a stone called ‘flint’ against a harder rock containing iron produced sparks. Apart from wood, other fuels have been discovered that can be burnt to produce heat. These include coal, oil and natural gas. Matches and firelighters can be used to light fires instead of sticks and flint.

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hot water systems. It is used to heat up irons, cook food in ovens and toast bread in toasters. Many types of heaters work by electricity.

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Handy experiments When two objects are rubbed together, they produce a certain amount of heat through friction. Complete this activity to find out what heat you feel when you rub your hands in different conditions. Equipment: items described in the first column Procedure:

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How does heat travel? and size so same heat is contained; spoons should be placed in cup at same time and left for the same length of time; spoons should be close to the same size. Note: Ensure students take care when feeling the metal spoon as it can become quite hot to touch.

Content focus: Heat travels by conduction, convection or radiation Identifying the difference between a thermal conductor and a thermal insulator Inquiry skills focus: Questioning and predicting Planning and conducting Processing and analysing data and information Evaluating Communicating Background information

Answers Page 72 1. into, out 2. conduction, convection, radiation 3. (a) (ii) metal spoon should be ticked (b) Answers should indicate that metal is a good conductor of heat and the wood is not so the metal spoon will get hotter. 4. Answers should indicate that plastic does not let heat travel through easily so the handle will stay cool and not burn their hand. 5. insulator 6. a convection current 7. Answers should indicate we feel the sun’s heat because infrared heat rays radiate from the sun to Earth. Science as a Human Endeavour question Use and influence and science Good conductors are the metals tin, copper and steel. (The others are good insulators.)

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• Heat energy can be transferred in three ways: by radiation through infrared rays; by convection, which transfers heat through currents in liquids and gases; and by conduction, which moves heat from warmer to cooler areas in solid objects. Heat can only travel from warm to cooler areas and not the other way around. • Useful websites:

<http://spaceplace.jpl.nasa.gov/en/kids/st8/thermal_loop/index. shtml> (Powerpoint™ about heat travel)

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<http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/ks2bitesize/science/materials/ keeping_warm/read1.shtml> (Information to read about temperature and insulating materials)

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The students should discover a metal spoon will be the best thermal conductor. Not only will it feel the hottest but the heat will remain there for the longest. If a ceramic spoon is used, they will find that spoon will hold less heat than the metal spoon but more than the plastic and wooden spoons. The plastic spoon will hold a slight amount of heat for a short time, while the wooden spoon will hold the least heat.

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How does heat travel? – 1 Read the text. Heat is a form of energy or power. We can feel heat from sources like the sun or a fire; from friction when we rub our hands together; from hot water from a tap; and from appliances such as heaters, toasters and electric blankets. But how does the heat travel so we can feel it? Heat travels into and out of objects. This is called heat transfer. All objects are made up of tiny particles called atoms and molecules. If an object is hot, its molecules and atoms move quickly. If an object is cooler, they will move much slower. Heat travels from one object to another through conduction, convection or radiation.

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Conduction is the main way heat travels through solid objects. When you stir a pot of hot soup with a metal spoon (a solid), the spoon will gradually heat up all the way to the handle. The molecules and atoms in the spoon move more quickly and bump into others. Heat travels throughout the spoon in this way and it can get quite hot to touch. Metal is a good conductor. The pot is made of metal, too, and will also get very hot.

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What happens if you use a wooden or plastic spoon to stir the soup? Wood and plastic are not good conductors of heat. Heat does not travel easily through them. They are called insulators. You will notice that most pots have plastic handles. This is so we can hold the pot and not burn our hand.

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Radiation is another way of heat transfer. It is the spreading out of heat rays. The sun is the best example. Heat from the sun cannot travel by conduction or convection because space is almost completely empty. We feel heat from the sun as it travels to Earth by infrared rays. We can also feel heat from a light bulb in the same way. It radiates heat into the surrounding air.

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Gases and liquids transfer heat by convection. When a pot of cold soup is put on a hot plate, the soup (a liquid) at the bottom heats up first. This warm soup is lighter and moves up to the top where the soup is cooler. The cooler soup moves down. The warmer and cooler molecules and atoms mix until the temperature is the same throughout. The same thing happens when we turn on a heater in a cold room. The air (a gas) is heated right in front of the heater. Warm air is lighter than cool air so it rises. Cool air comes down to take its place. It gets warmed and rises. The movement of the liquid or gas is called a convection current.

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Spoonfuls of experiments Some materials allow heat to pass through them easily. They are good thermal (heat) conductors. Other materials do not allow heat to move through them easily. They are good thermal insulators. Follow the procedure to find out which type of spoon is the best thermal conductor. Equipment:

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• kettle filled with hot water • 1 large coffee mug • 3 or 4 spoons about the same size made of different materials; e.g. 1 plastic, 1 metal, 1 wooden, 1 ceramic

2. Place all the spoons in the mug at the same time. Leave them for 1 minute. 3. Which spoon do you predict will feel the hottest when you take it out?

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Content focus: How thermometers work and their uses

1. As a class, choose 5 different places for each group to position their containers; e.g. freezer, fridge, classroom, outside in shade, outside in full sun. Students list in table. 2. Before they start, students rate the places (within their group) from 1 to 5—1 where they think a container will get the warmest and 5 the coolest. 3. Students take turns to pour 250 mL cold water into their group’s 5 identical containers. (All groups should have the same; e.g. glasses, glass jars, clear plastic cups. Don’t use containers that are too insulated as this may affect the water temperature too much.) The water temperature is measured and the time recorded. 4. Each container is placed in position. Note: Thermometers should not be left in the containers. Bring inside so each new reading will be unaffected by continual heat/cold. 5. Students take three more readings over the next couple of hours, and record in appropriate column. After the last reading, they rate the containers again and discuss and compare the results among the groups. Results can be recorded on graphs. (Also discuss what made the procedure a fair test.)

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• Ice melts at exactly 0 ºC, a hot bath is about 40 ºC and fresh water boils at exactly 100 ºC. • Mercury is a metal used in traditional thermometers as it is a liquid at room temperature. It is naturally coloured silver so it can be seen against the degree markings in the thermometer tube. If colourless alcohol is used, it is dyed so it can be seen.

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1. thermometer, temperature, hot, cold 2. The liquid expands and rises up the tube as the temperature rises and contracts and lowers as the temperature falls. 3. Because the heat from your hands will transfer to the glass tube and make the temperature rise (giving a false reading). 4. (a) 15 ºC (b) 5 ºC (c) 37 ºC (d) 28 ºC 5. Possible answers: Tube thermometers are harder to handle because of heat transfer/made of glass which can break; Digital reading is easier to read than that of a tube thermometer. Science as a Human Endeavour question Use and influence of science Lists could include: heaters of various forms, air conditioners, ovens, irons, electric blankets, pizza ovens, hair straighteners, hair dryers, washing machines, toasters, refrigerators, hot plates, clothes dryers, coffee makers.

• Medical thermometers used for checking a person’s temperature include ear probe models; forehead detection strips; digital thermometers for use under the tongue, under the arm or on the forehead; and traditional oral liquid thermometers. • Useful website:

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• Thermometers can be analog (temperature shown on a dial or scale) or digital (temperature shown as a number). The temperature can be measured in different scales—Celsius (C), Fahrenheit (F) or Kelvin (K). Celsius and Fahrenheit units are called degrees (symbol= º), while Kelvin units are called kelvins. Celsius is used in most countries today, though scientists usually use Kelvin in their investigations.

• Pages 75 and 76 should be used together.

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• To assist in discussing page 75, show students how traditional glass tube thermometers, digital and strip thermometers work.

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What is a thermometer? – 1 Read the text. A thermometer is an instrument used to measure temperature. Temperature is how hot or cold something is—or the amount of heat it has. Different kinds of thermometers are used to measure the temperature of different things. A glass tube thermometer is shown below.

It contains a thin glass tube of coloured liquid. The liquid is usually mercury, which has a silver colour, or alcohol that has been coloured with a dye.

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Knowing the temperature is useful for many reasons. A person’s temperature should be around 37 °C (Celsius). A thermometer can tell if our temperature is too high and we have a fever. Cooks and chefs measure the temperature of fridges, ovens and food so it can be cooked, stored and served correctly. Vehicles like cars, trucks and planes have instruments that show if an engine is overheating. We like to know the temperature so we can dress for the weather and plan outdoor activities. R.I.C. Publications®

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Some thermometers are digital. They contain a tiny device called a ‘thermistor’. This measures the temperature which is then displayed on a screen. Another type of thermometer is shaped like a strip of card. It has different inks on it which change colour according to the temperature. Digital and strip thermometers are easier to use than a tube thermometer.

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What’s the temperature? Have fun using a thermometer to find out how a container of water gets warmer or cooler depending on where it is placed! I am boiling.

Equipment: • 5 identical containers I am freezing. • 1 litre jug of cold water • 250 mL measuring cup • 5 thermometers • watch/timer that shows seconds

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How can heat affect us and things around us? Answers

Science as a Human Endeavour substrand: Use and influence of science Content focus: Considering some of the effects of heat in everyday life Inquiry skills focus: Questioning and predicting Planning and conducting Processing and analysing data and information Evaluating Communicating Background information

Page 80 1. Teacher check 2. (a) reverse cycle air conditioner/heater/beanie/blanket/scarf/ double-glazed windows (b) reverse cycle air conditioner/double-glazed windows/fan (c) fridge/cooler/vacuum flask (d) oven/vacuum flask/cooler (can be used, but not usually) (e) oven/toaster (f) cooler/vacuum flask/double-glazed windows 3. The liquid in a thermometer and the meatal in expansion joints both expand when heated and contract when cooled. 4. (a) make it change from a solid to a liquid (b) make it change from a solid to a liquid (c) make it change from a liquid to a solid 5. Students should describe the soles of shoes wearing out or the problems caused by friction in the moving parts of machines like bicycles or car engines.

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1. Teacher check 2. Teacher check 3. Depending on the heat of the water, the balloon will start to inflate after a few minutes (or sooner). 4. Teacher check 5. The balloon will deflate. 6. As the air inside the balloon becomes heated in the hot water, it expands and needs more space. This stretches out the balloon. When the bottle is placed in the ice water, the air inside the balloon is cooled, contracts and needs less space, so the balloon deflates.

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How can heat affect us and things around us? – 1 Read the text. Imagine it is a very hot day. What are some of the things you could do to make yourself feel cooler? You could wear light clothing, use a fan or air conditioner to cool yourself or have a cool shower or a swim. You could play in a shady spot outside instead of in the sun. We sweat when we are hot, which helps to cool us down. Extra water should be drunk to replace the water lost from sweat.

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Sometimes, materials can change when they gain or lose heat. Some materials can change size by expanding when heated or contracting when cooled. Liquid inside a tube thermometer works in this way. The metal in railway lines and bridges can expand and contract with heat and cold. They have expansion joints built into them so they won’t buckle in the heat.

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as a gas. If we freeze water, it becomes a solid. A block of chocolate can change from a solid to a liquid if heated. When we boil an egg, the inside changes from a liquid to a solid by heating. When two surfaces are rubbed together, heat is produced by friction. This can cause problems for us. For example, did you know that the soles of your shoes wear out because of the constant rubbing against the different surfaces you walk on? Problems can occur with the friction between the moving parts in machines such as car engines and bicycles. Oil or grease is used to reduce the friction (and heat) between the moving parts. R.I.C. Publications®

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• 1 uninflated balloon • 2 trays of ice cubes

• 2 saucepans • 1 cup cool water

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